Word: toilets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...system employs 51,201 people-among them, 37.609) teachers, 772 custodians. 402 truant officers and hundreds of clerks, mechanics, architects, engineers and elevator operators. Many of its subsidiary works, such as legal condemnation of land for new schools and the purchase of supplies (411,500 rolls of toilet paper, $18,965 wet mops. $6,900,000 worth of books and school equipment every year) are big businesses in themselves...
...been giving the Brotherhood military training. Come clean with me." The soft-spoken major denied the accusations, though, as he later admitted, "I had a paper in my wallet which would have proven my guilt." At the first chance, the young officer excused himself, went to the toilet, flushed the paper away, and returned. Unable to prove anything against the major, Hady told him, "You're a young fool," but he finally...
...buildings as Houston. Skyscrapers, one of them 43 stories high, soar above its Spanish church towers. Along its principal avenues flow rivers of cars, most of them assembled in Mexico (in U.S.-owned branch plants). From hundreds of sleek factories on the outskirts come office furniture, cosmetics and toilet articles, trucks and buses, cortisone and refrigerators. Along broad Insurgentes Avenue, one of the hemisphere's brightest shopping centers, Mexicans can buy a Jaguar, a cabin cruiser, a Paris gown, a set of tubular-steel garden furniture...
...When ex-Schoolteacher George McLaurin entered the University of Oklahoma law school, he was subjected to a number of indignities. He was forced to sit alone outside his classrooms; there was a special place for him in the library, a special table in the cafeteria, a special toilet he was supposed to use. But since then, other Negroes have gone to Oklahoma, and all such clumsy attempts at segregation have gradually disappeared. Says O.U.'s Vice President Roscoe Gate: "[This] success has depended largely on the student body...
...office supplies yearly, has already gone a long way toward trimming waste by standardizing purchases. Where GSA formerly bought 25 different chair styles, it now buys only one; instead of ten grades of paper clips, it buys four, eight steel desk types instead of 54, three kinds of toilet tissue instead...